“Half of what we’re doing in places like Afghanistan is helping to rebuild what we’ve already destroyed with other types of warfare,” said Martin Libicki, senior management scientist at the RAND corporation.

“To paraphrase the Rolling Stones, neither Obama nor Rouhani may get what they want from nuclear talks — for Obama a historic diplomatic breakthrough, and for Rouhani the preservation of Iran’s nuclear options and capabilities — but with some effort each may get what he needs."

In honor of Constitution Day last month, our Christopher Newport University Chapter co-sponsored a debate that drew over 350 students on ”The Limits of Executive Power: Is the NSA’s Domestic Surveillance Constitutional?”

Speakers David Cole, Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, and Eric Posner, Kirkland & Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Aaron Director Research Scholar at the University of Chicago, debated the role of the National Security Agency on Thursday, September 26:

“There is something fundamentally wrong when in a democracy, a government representing us, collects data about us without our knowledge,” said David Cole, who is “against secret laws advanced by secret agencies approved by secret courts in secret that are only revealed when someone…leaks it.”